OT: I-275 N is open!!!
I-275 Northbound is (pretty much) finished! Let the traffic flow freely!
Wheeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.clickondetroit.com/traffic/northbound-i-275-to-reopen-tuesda…
August 31st, 2016 at 8:30 AM ^
No joke. Turning left on Beck was basically impossible.
August 30th, 2016 at 10:40 PM ^
Leading stretch of Michigan State Police speed trap: Back in business!
August 30th, 2016 at 11:05 PM ^
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August 31st, 2016 at 8:07 AM ^
I use Wade all day every day.
August 31st, 2016 at 10:23 AM ^
What does Gabrielle Union think of that?
August 31st, 2016 at 1:32 PM ^
Hopefully she doesn't mind. This guy has been helping me avoid the police for about a year. We ride to work on his wheelchair.
August 31st, 2016 at 7:23 AM ^
August 31st, 2016 at 8:08 AM ^
Somebody has to be first. Consider it your contribution to society.
August 30th, 2016 at 11:08 PM ^
The stretch between the M14 exit and the 8 Mile exit, they're pretty much circling back and forth all day, every day. Pull over someone one way, hit the turnaround, wait, another the other way, and repeat. I've even seen them with the speed guns on the overpasses to radio ahead to the cars below. It's nuts.
August 31st, 2016 at 1:40 AM ^
August 31st, 2016 at 7:24 AM ^
August 31st, 2016 at 8:16 AM ^
Never break fine-based traffic laws in a revenue-starved town.
August 31st, 2016 at 9:05 AM ^
Never speed on the southfield.
August 30th, 2016 at 11:19 PM ^
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August 30th, 2016 at 11:25 PM ^
Cool. I do. But many people don't.
August 30th, 2016 at 11:30 PM ^
It's ridiculous how many folks push 80 on 275. I'm surprised 696 isn't as closely monitored.
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August 30th, 2016 at 11:36 PM ^
Well, right. I'm not. It's a cash grab, just like every speed trap.
August 31st, 2016 at 12:08 AM ^
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August 31st, 2016 at 12:23 AM ^
If you think the State Police should be wasting their time waiting to ding someone running 72 in a 70...
August 31st, 2016 at 12:45 AM ^
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August 31st, 2016 at 6:23 AM ^
August 31st, 2016 at 8:13 AM ^
If the left lane was only for passing, you would constantly be passing. Keeping slow people out of the fast lane puts slow people in the middle lane.
August 31st, 2016 at 9:01 AM ^
There will be slow people in the middle lane either way. They might as well all drive in the same lane. That's literally the reason for having more than one lane - so that drivers who want to go the same speed can drive in one lane and drivers going a different speed can drive in another. That's how traffic flows.
August 31st, 2016 at 10:09 AM ^
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August 31st, 2016 at 12:54 PM ^
The problem is that the right lane on most highways has been taken over by trucks, forcing cars to either drive under the limit on the right or drive normally on the left.
Other countries, notably in Europe, don't rely as much on trucks to deliver goods (they use trains instead), so they can follow the "use left only for passing" guideline more easily. For Americans, it's not so simple.
August 31st, 2016 at 1:31 AM ^
August 31st, 2016 at 8:27 AM ^
The Rosetta Stone: Always drive 9 mph over the posted speed limit.
I have never gotten a speeding ticket in 30+ years of driving doing this. Not once.
This includes driving in MI, OH, PA, NY, NJ, CT, MA, RI, MA, NH, VT, MD, VA, DC, MN,WI, IA, MT, ID, WY, NC, GA, TN, SC, KY, FL, CA, AZ, HI, and a bunch more I'm missing.
August 31st, 2016 at 1:24 PM ^
275 has more space on the shoulders than 696. That is why there are more cops patrolling it.
August 30th, 2016 at 11:54 PM ^
Seriously, Livonia cops, I love you. No need to stop me. Really.
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August 30th, 2016 at 10:58 PM ^
August 30th, 2016 at 11:04 PM ^
Of course I-75 is going down for the count and this will be a pain for about 14 years.
August 30th, 2016 at 11:17 PM ^
August 30th, 2016 at 11:19 PM ^
Well, good thing we're not in LA.
August 30th, 2016 at 11:21 PM ^
August 31st, 2016 at 12:26 AM ^
August 31st, 2016 at 9:07 AM ^
There is literally no place in the lower 48 that I would want to live in less than I would want to live in LA.
August 31st, 2016 at 10:27 AM ^
East Lansing has to be a close second then.
August 31st, 2016 at 11:15 AM ^
It's not exactly near the top, no, but if I were handed that particular lemon, the sofa-fueled outdoor heating in the winter might well be a plus in the weather department.
August 30th, 2016 at 11:23 PM ^
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August 30th, 2016 at 11:28 PM ^
By next spring , if not sooner it will end up being pothole city again .
August 30th, 2016 at 11:49 PM ^
I drove on both sides of 275 before the construction. The road honestly was not in that bad of shape. But the state gets so much money per year and get a heavy fine if they don't use. So that's why the project got under way.
If they truly care about the roads, it would be the side streets that would be the ones going through overhauls (and they are). Those are absolutely hideous.
August 30th, 2016 at 11:38 PM ^
My drive to Howell from Livonia has been so flipping fun: best recommended route for me from Waze has been to take 96-M14-Exit Gotfredson-Take Territorial ALL the way down to 23, then get onto 96.
I'm going to miss that.
August 30th, 2016 at 11:43 PM ^
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August 31st, 2016 at 7:13 AM ^
Waiting for at least three stoplights at every intersection going north is not my idea of a fun commute. Of course, Beck was worse. There were a lot of instances that I was going all the way to Napier and taking that home. Sure, it's all dirt road, but at least there was no traffic.....